Introduction

This week, you'll get even more experience with using UNIX to perform bioinformatics data processing and analysis tasks. You'll also get introduced to UNIX scripting, which means: writing programs that automate tasks you would normally perform by typing and entering commands one by one.

The assignment for this week will feature several basic tasks you'll need to do again and again as a bioinformatics programmer or analyst, including:

Assignments

If you are using the base image, you only have 10 Gb of disk space on your VM. Contact iPlant support (support@iplantcollaborative.org) to request an EBS (elastic block storage) volume. 50 Gb should be enough. See: